NSW: On the blower: when council keeps you up

Sydney Morning Herald
On the blower: no one to call when the council keeps you up
Sunanda Creagh Urban Affairs Reporter
July 26, 2007

AT 4AM every Monday Kay Violet lies in bed listening to the sound of a leaf blower.

"I wake up at about 2am because I know it's going to happen. I lie there waiting and, sure enough, at 4am it starts up and they are blowing these leaves down the street," Ms Violet, of Guildford, said yesterday. "Sometimes on other days they use the leaf blower at 1am but at least you can get back to sleep."

The culprits are cleaners employed by Paramatta City Council, tidying the streets outside a row of shops in Guildford Road ...